Fuzzy's Farm

[NovaAman]

left over mac and cheese rocks!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

No chance of getting the bird, he has already said that the bird is valued at $2000 dollars; even if i did come up with it he is so convinced of his superiority that he would not give. He's so much older than me, and has kept birds so long; true i've kept birds since i could walk, and i've learned more here on BYC and by searching than the average individual would ever think to wonder about, but still. How to convince someone else? To his way of thinking by admitting that i've dealt with disease in my flock that means i wasn't caring for them properly. Flawed, but that is still the way he believes.

I'm not sure what avian vet they went to but i know it costed $300 and they aren't going to go back for a checkup. Times like this i wish i had pushed when i was younger to get a degree, i have always wanted to be able to work with birds. With someone like that though i doubt very much that even a degree would help. I tried to get his mind wondering on how she got sick in the first place, why she had diarrea still, why she was light; that's all i could do. Get questions going, perhaps he will seek his own answers and in that way she will be helped. I still think that the grit is a huge deal, without large enough grit her seeds and food could be not getting digested properly and could have fermented in there.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I cheated this time and got a $5 pizza. I need to clean, too tired! Stayed up to midnight, got up at 4 am! That programmable coffee pot saved my butt, i doubt that i could have functioned otherwise.

 

[NovaAman]

lol those $5 pizzas are good! I was to lazy to go to the store. I made them come to me!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I made the call tonight on my remaining 2 millie roos. Unless someone wants them, at nightfall the deed will be done.

I can't find anyone who wants any little roosters, i have asked around and i tried the auction before but the only one who wanted them was a guy who was going to process them, and he was brutal to his birds that he was loading up. I bought them back, but that was a near miss. ( that was also the day i wound up rescuing henry) I fear CL being the same way, this really sucks bad but i do not want my boys to suffer. Right now they aren't getting water until 3 pm when i can get there, that is not acceptable. The last several days the water has been iced to where they couldn't peck through And the one little guy that got chilled and died, that was terrible to watch. That little coop is not draft free enough for little birds; i could make it so but then i'd still be stuck with the water situation. If i separate an area in the camper, then they will fight constant with henry through the fence, they do it every day as it is. If i cage them in the dog kennel than they don't get to exercise enough as it gets dark at 5, and i can't get there until 3;

I don't want to see them die terrible and slow, or to be treated bad. This is the only way i see to be sure that they don't suffer.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

My others are well taken care of, their de-icer is doing it's job, and i keep the feed trough full. It's just these little stragglers, they don't fit in with the flock. For some reason these little roosters are more territorial than the big guys, they gang up on my EE roo, and i would not want them ganging up on my porcelain roo. He is a sweetie, and a lot smaller than they are.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

*sigh* I can't wait for spring, i hate the cold weather. This is one part of chicken keeping that i don't think i'll ever get used to, poor roosters they get a bum rap. Everyone wants girls! Can't blame no one, i just wish with all my heart that i was able to keep them all.

 

[RBahmer]

I made the call tonight on my remaining 2 millie roos. Unless someone wants them, at nightfall the deed will be done.

I can't find anyone who wants any little roosters, i have asked around and i tried the auction before but the only one who wanted them was a guy who was going to process them, and he was brutal to his birds that he was loading up. I bought them back, but that was a near miss. ( that was also the day i wound up rescuing henry) I fear CL being the same way, this really sucks bad but i do not want my boys to suffer. Right now they aren't getting water until 3 pm when i can get there, that is not acceptable. The last several days the water has been iced to where they couldn't peck through And the one little guy that got chilled and died, that was terrible to watch. That little coop is not draft free enough for little birds; i could make it so but then i'd still be stuck with the water situation. If i separate an area in the camper, then they will fight constant with henry through the fence, they do it every day as it is. If i cage them in the dog kennel than they don't get to exercise enough as it gets dark at 5, and i can't get there until 3;

I don't want to see them die terrible and slow, or to be treated bad. This is the only way i see to be sure that they don't suffer.

Fuzzy - Are they Millie Fluer or Porcelain ? I need a porcelain roo.I had your perfect hugging, loving chick hatch out while I was in New York. It is sooo cute. Russian Orloff X Silkie. It is marked like an Orloff with fuzzy black legs and feet.

 

[NovaAman]

Robin! How was your trip?

Fuzzy, my heart breaks for you. I wish I could take them off your hands... But poor Florus is already the bottom rooster. Even below Roger Jr who rules the garage. Whats funny is that RJ rules the garage so much so that when Fritz and Rod go in there for any reason, tonight it was another hawk attack, no losses, BIG SOBBING THING! They leave him be, give way to him too! He's younger than Florus! Florus however doesn't run RJ, and RJ could care less if he is there...

My GLW is in the garage again. She's walking a bit slowly. Another round of antibiotics tonight. She's got poopy yolk butt tonight though. Soft egg in the nest box... Damnitall.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

No Robin these were the millie boys. I still have the porcelain birds, if they have to go you will be the first to know, i would not willingly put down a bird if there were any other alternatives, i remember you want the porcelain. If maurice were ever to go, his sister and his "mom" would go with him, they are a group and do everything together. He is a little scared of henry since he hit puberty, but they get along ok. It was just the millies, they fought with henry through the fence every time they made eye contact.

These were my babies i got from TSC this last spring and raised in my armoire. I loved those little boys. They were not mean. I had no choice, couldn't let them dehydrate to death, couldn't find homes. Their only sin was being born a rooster. Makes me sick, i loved those boys to pieces.